LOL!! Be HUGE CONSUMERS & SPEND LOT$A moneys at Xmas bc that's the TRUE "meaning of the season" is what this dumbass song is "selling." How gauche. Of course, they wrap it around some nonsense that IF some store owner (paging Mr. Macy: better be personally standing at the front door of every Macy's greeting your braindead cultists "correctly") doesn't say the "politically correct" words - as we're adjured in this piece of propoganda brainwashing that "words have meaning" - then you should, like a "good Christian," turn your frickin' back on that store and STALK away in a massive hissy fit.

WWJD?? I think he'd have a few salient words to say to these rightwing hacks:

Remember the old days of about 10 years ago, when people complained that Christmas was too commercialized! Funny we seem to have completely embraced that meme today. So kids don't spend your Christmastime on religious thoughts, instead make Christmas about attacking people who won't celebrate it with you. Pretty soon your whole faith is nothing but symbols and dates on a calendar.

To gruaud: I don't think that brainwashing "song" even included the notion of "love to all and peace on Earth." I think it just said: BUY BUY BUY SPEND SPEND SPEND... the meaning of the season is to SPEND & BUY and be a commercialized as possible, but if some store doesn't have the "correct words" of greeting or in their window display, then EFF THEM, SCREW 'em bc after all, if they don't say "Merry Christmas," why then we wouldn't have SCROOGES like our kind behaving like bonkers assholes on the planet. And wouldn't that be terrible???

I didn't see any mention of "peace on Earth." All I saw were dollar $ign$, directives to $pend big-time, and directives to be nasty shits to anyone who didn't bow down and kiss your butt.

It's a really sad commentary when "Christianity" has come to mean that you waste a lot of money buying useless Chinese slave-labor junk from giant US corporations who've outsourced US jobs to third world countries. And then you can't even be *polite* and *gracious* and acknowledge that people of faiths different from yours actually, you know, celebrate a different, but gasp! shock! *equally valid holiday around the same time of Xmas.

This isn't what I was taught in my Sunday school growing up, I'm happy to say. It sickens me to see horrible, nasty diatribes like this that are so incredibly disrespectful to other faiths... quite needlessly, too.

Oh, I wouldn't say jumped the shark. Exagerating? Maybe a little...but there sure are some uncomfortable parallels here.

One aspect of early anti-Semetic propaganda in Nazi Germany was criticism and denigration not just of Jews, but of Jewish shopkeepers in particular. And there were early calls for boycots of Jewish businesses....long before things got REALLY bad, this sort of thing was in the air. And stereotypes of Jewish as dishonest bankers/greedy businessmen are common to this day.

Which is why I find all of this say Merry Christmas / boycott stores tht wish you Happy Holidys / War on Christmas stuff to be one of the most disturbing and uncomfortable of the right-wing memes. It really makes my skin crawl, more so than other forms of right-wing nonsense. It's just a little to...familiar.

Do they have any idea who they sound like? I don't know. But it sounds to me like even if history isn't reapeating itself, it is rhyming.

Just btw, Stewart points out some rather egregious LIES told by Fox (what a surprise, not), and that Fox is ALSO saying that IF some shopkeeper now says "Merry Christmas" to you, you should be "mad" at them bc they might just be trying to "get your money."

Sheesh, no wonder TeaGOPers are so braindead... I don't know how they can watch that slop... beyond my comprehension.

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